AI Regulation
AI rules, enforcement, and policy decisions, and what each one changes for the people who have to work under them.
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CNN Sues Perplexity Over Copying 17,000 Pieces of Content
CNN filed a copyright lawsuit against AI search company Perplexity, accusing it of scraping and reproducing more than 17,000 pieces of its content, becoming the latest in a growing line of publishers to take legal action after licensing negotiations broke down.
June 19, 2026 · 3 min read
Illinois Passes Law Forcing AI Giants to Get Safety Audits
Illinois lawmakers voted unanimously to require the world's biggest AI companies to submit to annual independent safety audits, a first in the US, arriving days after the White House pulled back from its own federal AI safety plan.
June 5, 2026 · 2 min read
California Sues 23andMe Over 7 Million-User DNA Breach
California has filed a lawsuit against the company formerly known as 23andMe over a 2023 data breach that exposed the genetic, health, and ancestry data of nearly 7 million people, and the case reveals how badly the company mishandled both the security failure and its aftermath.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
YouTube Now Auto-Labels AI Videos Without Creator Input
YouTube has started automatically detecting and labeling AI-generated video content, removing the ability for creators to quietly skip disclosure, and the shift matters for any business that uses video to build trust with customers.
June 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Pope Leo XIV Issues Major AI Ethics Declaration
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical directly targets AI-powered weapons, data monopolies, and what it calls 'digital colonialism', placing the Catholic Church formally into the global AI governance debate and adding significant moral pressure on governments and businesses worldwide.
June 5, 2026 · 3 min read
OpenAI Is Spending Big to Shape AI Rules in Its Favor
OpenAI has hired a seasoned political crisis manager and is funding super PACs, lobbying state governments, and backing liability shield laws, all while public trust in AI keeps falling, a gap that matters for any business operator relying on AI tools or facing employees and customers skeptical of the technology.
June 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Trump Pauses Order That Would Review AI Before Release
The White House pulled back an executive order that would have given the government advance access to powerful AI models before launch, a delay that leaves businesses with no official process for knowing whether the AI tools they depend on have been checked for security risks.
June 5, 2026 · 2 min read
US Government Helps Kill Colorado's AI Anti-Bias Law
The US Department of Justice sided with Elon Musk's xAI to destroy Colorado's landmark AI consumer protection law before it ever took effect, and the state replaced it with a much weaker version, setting a precedent that any state trying to protect its residents from AI discrimination can expect a federal lawsuit.
June 2, 2026 · 3 min read
OpenAI Buys Voice-Cloning Startup to Kill Its Catalog
OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, a six-person startup hosting unauthorized AI voice clones of celebrities, shut it down, and scattered the team, with the clearest explanation being reputation management ahead of a planned public listing.
June 2, 2026 · 2 min read
CFTC Uses AI to Police Prediction Market Insider Trading
The US financial regulator overseeing prediction markets is deploying AI tools to catch traders using classified government information to place bets, even as it simultaneously lost over 20% of its human staff, creating a high-stakes test of whether automated surveillance can actually keep up with a market that has grown from $2 billion to $26 billion in monthly trades in just one year.
June 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Anthropic's $1.5B Book Piracy Settlement Stalls in Court
A federal judge has delayed final approval of what would be the largest copyright settlement in US history, raising pointed questions about legal fees and payouts that reveal a deeper tension: the settlement may be a better deal for Anthropic than it first appears, and a growing group of authors are betting they can do better by fighting alone.
June 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Anthropic Warns US Has Two Years to Lock In Its AI Lead Over China
Anthropic has published a detailed policy paper arguing that 2026 is the critical year to secure a lasting advantage over China in AI, and that without tighter controls on chip smuggling and model theft, that window closes permanently by 2028.
June 5, 2026 · 4 min read
UK Regulator Opens Formal Probe Into Microsoft Office Bundle
Britain's competition watchdog has formally launched an investigation into whether Microsoft's bundling of Windows, Office, Teams, and Copilot is locking UK businesses out of real choice, and the outcome could force Microsoft to unbundle products and open its software to rivals — right as it prepares a major price increase.
June 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Apple and Google Unite Against EU's Android AI Ruling
The EU is forcing Google to give rival AI services the same deep system access on Android that Gemini currently enjoys exclusively, and Apple has sided with Google in opposing the move — not out of friendship, but because the same logic will almost certainly come for iPhone next.
June 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Shadow AI Is Now a Boardroom Risk, Not Just an IT Problem
Employees across every industry are using personal AI accounts to handle client data, internal documents, and proprietary information without company oversight, and the financial and regulatory consequences are now large enough to appear on board agendas.
June 2, 2026 · 3 min read
The Real Cost of Training AI on Untracked Data
As companies begin building their own AI models using internal data, a quiet compliance problem is growing: most of them cannot prove which data trained which model, and regulators in finance, insurance, and healthcare are increasingly asking exactly that question.
June 2, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI Backs Kids Safety Bill While Facing Suicide Lawsuits
OpenAI has endorsed the Kids Online Safety Act just as it faces multiple wrongful death lawsuits tied to teen interactions with ChatGPT, raising real questions about whether this is a genuine safety commitment or a calculated move to shape the very laws it will be judged by.
June 2, 2026 · 2 min read
China Makes AI Layoffs Illegal. The West Has Not.
A Chinese appeals court has ruled that replacing a worker with AI is not legal grounds for dismissal, establishing a clear standard that no Western government has come close to matching, at a time when over 93,000 tech jobs have already been cut globally in 2026 alone.
June 5, 2026 · 3 min read
Medicare Just Opened a Door for AI in Patient Care
The US government has created the first payment system that actually pays for AI-driven patient care, not just doctor visits, and the companies best positioned to benefit are ones most of the technology world has never heard of.
June 5, 2026 · 3 min read
SpaceXAI Adds More Gas Turbines Mid-Lawsuit, Industry Watches
SpaceXAI kept installing gas turbines at its Mississippi data center even after a federal lawsuit was filed against it, raising a question that now matters far beyond one company: how does the AI industry's desperate need for power collide with the communities that live next to it.
June 2, 2026 · 2 min read
EU AI Act Now Forces Businesses to Track AI Training Intensity
Since August 2025, any company that fine-tunes a general-purpose AI model and does so heavily enough could be legally reclassified as an AI model developer under EU law, triggering documentation, copyright, and transparency obligations that most businesses are completely unprepared for.
June 2, 2026 · 3 min read
The OpenAI Trial: Who Actually Wins and Loses
As the Musk v. Altman trial enters its final days, testimony from key insiders has revealed far more about OpenAI's money, power structure, and internal fractures than any press release ever would, and the real consequences extend well beyond whoever wins the verdict.
June 1, 2026 · 3 min read
AI Data Centres: Australia Forces Energy Self-Sufficiency
Australia's federal and state governments have agreed that new data centres must fund enough solar, wind, and battery storage to fully cover their own electricity use, a policy that could reshape how every country handles the AI energy surge — and Queensland's refusal to sign on reveals a deeper national fault line over who pays when big tech plugs into the grid.
June 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Taxing AI to Pay Displaced Workers: Will It Work?
A California governor candidate wants to tax AI companies for every unit of data they process and use that money to guarantee jobs for workers displaced by AI, raising a question that every government will eventually face: who pays when automation reshapes the workforce?
May 8, 2026 · 2 min read